The passage above is an excerpt from this. If the underlined word, which is "crisis", be substituted with the word "event" instead, this would create a tone of less intense. Answer is opt
Did you mean to say Antonyms ? If so , synonyms are words that are related and/ similar to a specific vocabulary word basically meaning the same thing. Antonyms on the other hand , mean the complete opposite of the vocabulary word given .
The sentence is an example of a cause and effect reasoning. It helps to stablish the relationship between an event that comes first, and the one that takes place after the former. This type of reasoning provides the necessary information and details to understand why certain events happens as they do.
I think the answer is food